Thursday, November 12, 2009

Nobody told me there was going to be math

What?



They said there was going to be pie!


Did you know that in 430 BC, Hippias (460 BC–400 BC) of Elis (in the Peloponnese, Greece), a contemporary of Socrates, discovered the quadratrix, a curve he used for trisecting an angle.





Dr. Meroney

Here we have Dr. Robert Meroney, Emeritus Professor of Engineering at CSU presenting his multimedia tribute to all that is pi; the history, humor, poems, limericks, and trivia. Of course he meant this pi: π not the other kind. The one that is a number that is about: 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510. Not the pie you can eat!




Oh, they had pie! Real pie!


All part of Fort Collins' Poudre River Public Library 'Eclectic Nights' series!


Dr. Meroney likes computer simulations. Check out this lava lamp demo of a fluid model desktop toy.







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